{4 Ingredients} Nutella Brownies

I’m very excited to share with you today’s recipe for Nutella brownies. My excitement has nothing to do with the fact that anything made with Nutella tastes better. However, I’m excited because this recipe only contains only four ingredients!!! Now you may be asking yourself right this minute on whether or not you can trust a brownie recipe with only four ingredients. This is a fair question I will address because I had some skepticism myself. But rest assured, these little hazelnut chocolate bites are well worth the 3 minutes (if that) it took for me to mix the batter and the 12 minutes it required to bake.

This recipe comes from pasty chef, cookbook author, and Fine Cooking Magazine’s contributing editor, Abby Dodge. She has a new cookbook coming out next week called Desserts 4 Today: Flavorful Desserts with Just Four Ingredients filled with fabulous everyday desserts made with only four ingredients. She gave me permission to post her fabulous recipe here – Thanks Abby! I’ll be doing a review of her cookbook on Savory Sweet Life later in the week and will also be giving away a few copies. So stayed tuned!

Back to the brownies. The texture of the brownies are more similar to a gooey cake.. .molten lava cake to be exact. If you’re hoping for a chewy brownie, these are not it. Instead, they are more like super moist cake except the brownies literally melt in your mouth. The recipe makes exactly 12 mini cupcake sized bites and it is hard not to eat them all in one setting. I can already tell these little chocolate bites of yumminess are going to become my regular late night pick me up snack.

I should also mention, this recipe does not require a mixer and children can easily whip up a batch. Enjoy!

Comments

I was in search of a simple recipe to fulfill my sweet tooth and use up some Nutella I had in the cabinet. This was not the right recipe. I decided to try it based on the majority of the reviews being good. Everyone just does not have the same tastes. This recipe was horrible. The consistency was definitely there…brownie like with a gooey center but it tasted like nothing. I couldnt even taste the nutella. This recipe was a waste of my perfectly good Nutella.

Husband didn’t have all ingredients to make chocolate chip cookies and he had a sweet tooth. I remembered we have huge jar of Nutella. Found this recipe, seemed easy enough so we tried it. It was soooo easy, taste fantastic. You must try these for yourself!

P.S we used a very small glass cake pan in the toaster oven on bake with temperature just a little higher than directions. Center was nice and gooey. Do not add to much flour. We also substituted almond slices. If you have a nut allergy you can use pretzel. If you like sweeter add a little powder sugar or Stevia.

I used a regular sized muffin tin. They were a little too rich for me as a cupcake, so i took them out of the cupcake wrapper, put them in bowls and put vanilla ice cream on top. OMG was it good! It tasted just like a brownie sundae!

Made this this afternoon, followed everything exactly. While they were good, they weren’t my absolute favorite. My kids loved them! This recipe is a keeper though, simply because its so easy with few ingredients! Thanks for sharing.

I didn’t have much Nutella left, so I used only slightly more than 1/4 cup. They still turned out pretty good though, although the inside was not as gooey as I wanted. This is also rather easy, and combined with my Tefal Pie and Co., it’s totally idiot-proof! Thank you.

Made these last night but doubled the quantities, left out the nuts, added caramel chips to the batter and stuck half a white chocolate button in the top of each one. Soooo good! Will be making another batch to bring to work for World Nutella Day next month. I’m quite chuffed I actually managed to cook something in my super temperamental oven without burning it! Yay!

We loved this recipe! We double it and made it on the electric oven, it took a bit more time but all the recipes seem to take longer to bake where we live. It was a little dry, maybe we should use less flour next time. So easy and fast to make!

Thank you so much for this recipe! I was having a craving for something chocolatey and yummy, and this was definitely it! Not only are they moist and rich, but they are the perfect amount of chocolate, and because it doesn’t make TOO much like some mixes and recipes, this made the perfect amount for me to not feel bad if I eat the whole pan! I made mine in a round 7 or 8 inch pan, upped the time by a minute and only used 4 tablespoons of flour instead of 5!they came out perfectly! Again, thank you so much!

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